Ursula McKnight
Ph.D.
Ursula McKnight
Role in team
- Senior researcher
Expertise
- Nature-based Solutions, with focus on strengthening biodiversity, water quality, climate resilience, and community well-being across rural and urban landscapes under accelerating hydro-climatic change.
- Application of systems thinking approaches to water resources management.
- Aquatic ecohydrology, with focus on multiple stressors impacting freshwater ecosystems.
- Contaminant hydrogeology, including micropollutant fate and transport across the groundwater-surface water interface.
- Decision support systems development, to improve science-policy interlinkages along the climate-hydrology-impact modelling chain.
Professional records
- Current projects: Biodiversa+ (BiodivNBS) NBSPLUS; Destination Earth On-demand Extremes Digital Twin
- i10-index 34
- 40 peer-reviewed publications
Beyond meta-studies
Martina Viti, Jacob Ladenburg, Roland Lowe, Hjalte J. D. Sorup, Ursula McKnight, Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
Interpretable machine learning for predicting the fate and transport of pentachlorophenol in groundwater
Mehran Rad, Azra Abtahi, Ronny Berndtsson, Ursula McKnight, Amir Aminifar
Coupling pathway prediction and fluorescence spectroscopy to assess the impact of auxiliary substrates on micropollutant biodegradation
Anna-Ricarda Schittich, Kathrin Fenner, Colin A. Stedmon, Jianxin Xu, Ursula McKnight, Barth F. Smets
